Garment.



W. G. P. BALDWIN.

GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14,1911.

Paterited Dec. 10, 191.2.

ATTORNEY.

clearly described in conjunction with the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. I. BALDWIN, OF HOIiYO KE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BALDWIN GARMENT COMPANY, OF I-IOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION MASSA- CI-IUSETTS.

Application filed March 14,

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. P. BALD- WIN, a citizen of the United States-of America, and-resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in- Garment-s, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved onepiece garment which is made up in the form of a robe or dress and comprises a waist and skirt divided at the front and made so that the front portions thereof are reversible and of a-similar general character to that described and shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me April 7 1908,

The object of the present invention is to so make the garment, the greater portion of which, for instance, may be composed of a colored or figured goods, such as calico or gingham, the front portions thereof preferably of plainwhite cotton cloth to serve as reversible aprons and to give the general aspect to the garment of one on which separate aprons are worn, while, as a matter of fact, the reversible front portions of the garment form the means which constitute the apronmembers in contrast with the main portions of the one piece dress.

Specifically, the garment has its apron sections so made that when one section is outermost, it presents the appearance of an applied bibless apron, and when the other sec-- tion is outermost, it presents the appearance of a bib apron. v

The invention is hereinafter fully and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the one piece garment in spread out condition and as seen from the inner or rear side. Fig. 2 is a front view of the garment as worn and showing one of its apron members foremost. Fig. 3 is "a side view ofthe same. Fig. 4 is a front view of the garment as worn, but showing the aspect thereof when the apron portions are reversed. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view as taken on. the line 5-5, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a partial cross sectional view, somewhat en-.' larged, as taken on the line 6-6, Fig. -1. r In the drawings, A represents the back of the garment, the lower portion 10 of which constitutes a skirt of usual length.

Specification of Letters Patent.

B and 13 represent side portions which GARMENT.

rammed Dec. 10,1912. 1911. Serial No. 614,335.

are made continuous with the back and its skirt to form the aprons so that one may overlap the other at the front and extend around to the sidesof the person, as indicatedin Figs. 2, 3 and 4:.

The garment has slits a a at the waist line, and approximately where what may be regarded as the apron members merge into the back.

The waist band of the garment is made in two parts (1, cl, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and the parts begin at the slits a, a, and extend outwardly to the edges of the portions B- and B and beyond such edges to form tie strings. When the garment is worn with one member overlapped on the other, that string which extends from the edge of the relatively inner apron member is passed through the adjacent hand slit around to the rear of the garment to be connected with the other string outer member, and the said strings may be tied at the rear, as indicated in Fig. 3, or they may be otherwise secured. By means of the waist band and tie strings, the appearance of an ordinary one-piece garment or wrapper with an ordinary apron applied thereto is strikingly simulated, whereas in reality the whole garment is a single-piece structure.

Now it is to be particularly pointed out that this particular garment is to be made with the skirt-back and 'the waist-formingportion of a colored or figured fabric, while the portions which form the reversible and overlapping fronts of theskirt are of thin plain white cloth, such as cotton or muslin, and the seam at the inner edges of the apron sectionsv and where they are joined to the portions of the skirt which reach around at the sides of the person, is of a form such as shown at j in Fig. 6, and the location of which is also, indicated by the same reference in the other views. That is, the hem portion of each apron member is stitched as indicated at g a short distance inside of the hem fold so that each apron has a short free flap running from top to bot-tom thereof, which imparts to the garment the aspect of one in which a separate apron is provided-to overlie the'front portion of the garment 'skirt. It is, furthermore, to be pointed out that, for instance, the one B of the apron sections is made with a bib extension B as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and

extended from the relatively the garment especia indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 4, so that the serving maid may appear with a bib provided apron, or upon reversing the garment she may appear, as indicated in Fig. 4, as wearing anapron without the bib.

When the apron B becomes soiled, it, with its bib extension, may be arranged in a reversed relation to the apron B so that the latter is presented outermost in fresh and clean appearance, the reversal of the bands D, D being accomplished in the same manner as' is the case in respect to my original garment patented as. aforesaid.

The apron members formed and provided substantially as described, may be quite readily removed from the main portlons of the garment by ripping the stitches, whereupon they may be washed or cleansed, and replaced by newly stitching them on With but comparatively slight trouble; and this capability adds reatly to the utility of ly in cases where the main portlons are not composed of'wash goods.

I claim 1. An outer garment comprising a waist or bodloe portion and a skirt portion, said skirt portlon comprising a back section and two front or apron sections, one adapted to overlap the other, there being openings in the garment in the waistline adjacent the upper 1nner corners of the apron sections, and

a two-part waist-band having its parts extending from the said openings along the upper edges of the apron sections to and beyond the side edges thereof to form tie strings, the waist or bodice portion of the garment and the back section of the waist portion being of a material differing in a pearance from the material of which he apron sections aremade.

2. An outer garment comprising a Waist or bodice portion formed of a back section form tie strings, and a bib on one of the front sections of the waist portion of the garment.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. P. BALDWIN. Witnesses:

G. R. DRISCOLL, WM. S. BELLOWS. 

